The legislation could come up for a vote in the D.C. Council as early as Tuesday -- the same day the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on a bill that would virtually end local handgun control in the District.

The NRA has just sent out a mailer to member declaring that Barack Obama would be the “most anti-gun president in American history”. The NRA is printing six million of them. Think the NRA has forgotten the "bitter", "clinging to religi

So concludes a Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of Florida, in U.S. v. Boffil-Rivera, recommending that the District Judge reject a constitutional challenge to a federal statute that criminalizes gun possession by illegal aliens.

"You have seized company property without any cause or court order to date. The company firmly demands the return of the firearm in question," Len Savage told John Spencer and other officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and

A friend was visiting me from out of town. His concealed weapons permit did not have reciprocity with Wyoming, so he was open carrying. I was carrying concealed - though on several trips to Powell in the past, I
have chosen to open carry. We stopped

A federal judge on Monday upheld a gun ban at the world's busiest airport, dealing a blow to gun rights groups who argued a new Georgia law authorized them to pack heat in certain parts of the Atlanta airport.
U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob

Discussion by some opposition MPs about the possible introduction of a knife registry, following the gruesome, fatal attack on a Greyhound bus passenger late last month.
A knife registry? Really? What would I have to declare, paring knives, a brea

The Transportation Security Administration may allow airports to ban firearms from terminals, parking lots, roads and other airport areas where many states currently allow carry. "Any decisions we make could affect every other airport in the cou

A new report to the Connecticut state legislature shows police have used the state's unique gun seizure law to confiscate more than 1,700 firearms from citizens based on suspicion that the gun owners might harm themselves or others.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then youth activists trained by the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia, overwhelmingly transformed the tone of media coverage of the Supreme Court decision overturning the Washington, DC gun ban. They

soon we'll beg the government for its gracious permission to exercise the fundamental, unalienable, individual, civil, natural, Constitutional, and human right of every man, woman, and responsible child to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concea

Florida employers cannot bar their employees from keeping guns locked in their cars at work but businesses can stop customers from keeping firearms in cars while shopping, a U.S. judge has ruled. Both gun advocates and business groups claimed victory

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A man opened fire with a shotgun in a church in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Sunday, killing two people, including a man called a hero for shielding others from a shotgun blast, police and local media reported.

"I don't look at this lightly—that, 'Oh, because the Supreme Court's done it we're just gonna dismiss it and all of a sudden people can arm themselves." If the gun ban were overturned the city would need to consider other wa

Gabriel Razzano claims he was targeted in the raid for his "unpopular" political beliefs. He's filed a $5 million federal lawsuit against the Nassau PD and McCarthy, charging they joined forces to strip him of his guns unconstitutionall

Ron Jones, 33, was expecting a crowd when he arrived at 6:05 a.m. to obtain an application. Jones said he is planning to purchase a weapon for self-defense. "It's our constitutional right. I'm here to exercise that right. The way things

Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal law barring felons from owning guns after police found seven pistols, three shotguns and five rifles at his home south of Pittsburgh.
As a defense, Barton a

Heller may not have brought his gun with him to register, but he was armed with a load of candidate petitions. Heller is collecting signatures to run for the House seat currently held by Eleanor Holmes Norton as a libertarian candidate.

To let more antigunners organize to submit comments. The period for public comment on a controversial rule change that would allow loaded guns in national parks has been extended to August 8 after pressure from congressional leaders.